Jeepers, if even Seattle is dragging the chain...

Mayor McGinn - who knocked off the redoubtable Greg Nichols (now at Harvard) as Mayor of Seattle last year - is holding the line on a regional transport plan (and at least the water supply is looking up) but the majority investment strategy is still way askew:

"McGinn, in contrast, said this weekend (in remarks the invite-only Climate Neutral Seattle Unconference...) he decided to go it alone in voting against the plan because “it doesn’t meet our objectives on transit, land use, social equity, or greenhouse gas emissions.” Instead of moving the region boldly forward in promoting transit, density, equitable access to infrastructure, and greenhouse-gas reductions, the plan preserves the region’s “moderate” status quo—relatively modest investments in transit and biking coupled with massive outlays on new highways for cars.

McGinn’s position, incidentally, is shared by groups like the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, the Cascade Bicycle Club, the Transportation Choices Coalition, the Washington Environmental Council—and even those radical lefties at the US Environmental Protection Agency."